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Chelsea don't need PSG-style bonus incentives - Mourinho

ESPN staff
March 11, 2015
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Jose Mourinho says Chelsea do not need PSG-style cash bonuses to spur them on to the Champions League quarter-finals.

Chelsea host PSG on Wednesday night in the second leg of their last-16 tie, after the first meeting in Paris ended in a 1-1 draw as Edinson Cavani cancelled out Branislav Ivanovic's opening goal.

French newspaper la Parisien reports PSG's Qatari owners will pay out €250,000 (£177,000) to each squad member if they knock out Chelsea.

But Mourinho claimed his team's professionalism means rewards for incremental progress are unnecessary. "For a long, long, long time, I don't have [those type of] bonuses," he said. "I just have bonuses to win competitions. So I forgot that feeling. I had that feeling, but the last time was at Porto. I never had a bonus [like that] again and I don't think we should.

"The club pay us a very good salary to do our job the best we can.

"We do that job as best we can. If we take the club into quarterfinals, semifinals, finals, but we don't win the competition, we are doing a very good job for the club financially but I don't think we should get extra money, on top of our salaries, if we don't win the last prize.

"It's nice I think if somebody puts on the table €250,000 or pounds to win a certain match, it's nice. But I think professionalism goes above and beyond that.''

He added: "Football is about our passion for the game, the happiness and the pride of victories. They have no price."

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